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Friday, August 18, 2017

Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: ‘Transgendered Men Don’t Become Women,’ They Become ‘Feminized Men,’ ‘Impersonators’

Let us get serious. The whole of human sexuality is biological and its variants are driven by the effect of our sexual machinery altering our conscious response to it. It does not convert man into a thriving woman. or vice versa.

The application of medical intervention to alter this is obviously dangerous and will surely shorten lives.

In the meantime the whole meme has been thrown into the mainstream media who pretends that all this is cool. Now we have obvious consequences produced and it is not pretty. In more barbaric times a handful would be shot and it would all go away for a long time. This time we are hell bent on producing the worst possible outcomes.

It is not a human right to be twisted from your biological imperatives or to impose it upon others. It is a right to be accommodated as necessary but no more. After that we are all about indulgence. .

Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: ‘Transgendered Men Don’t Become Women,’ They Become ‘Feminized Men,’ ‘Impersonators’

Dr.
Paul R. McHugh, the Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at
Johns Hopkins University and former psychiatrist–in-chief for Johns
Hopkins Hospital, who has studied transgendered people for 40 years,
said it is a scientific fact that “transgendered men do not become
women, nor do transgendered women become men.”

Dr. McHugh,
who was psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital for 26 years,
the medical institute that had initially pioneered sex-change surgery –
and later ceased the practice – stressed that the cultural meme, or idea
that “one’s sex is fluid and a matter of choice” is extremely damaging,
especially to young people.

The
idea that one’s sexuality is a feeling and not a biological fact “is
doing much damage to families, adolescents, and children and should be
confronted as an opinion without biological foundation wherever it
emerges,” said Dr. McHugh in his article, Transgenderism: A Pathogenic Meme.

“I
am ever trying to be the boy among the bystanders who points to what’s
real,” said Dr. McHugh, who is also professor of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins. “I do so not only because truth
matters, but also because overlooked amid the hoopla—enhanced now by
Bruce Jenner’s celebrity and Annie Leibovitz’s photography—stand many
victims.”

“Think, for example, of the parents whom no one—not
doctors, schools, nor even churches—will help to rescue their children
from these strange notions of being transgendered and the problematic
lives these notions herald,” warned McHugh.

They rarely find
therapists who are willing to help them “work out their conflicts and
correct their assumptions,” said McHugh. “Rather, they and their
families find only ‘gender counselors’ who encourage them in their
sexual misassumptions.”

In addition, he said, “both the state and federal governments
are actively seeking to block any treatments that can be construed as
challenging the assumptions and choices of transgendered youngsters.”

“As
part of our dedication to protecting America’s youth, this
administration supports efforts to ban the use of conversion therapy for
minors,” said Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to President Obama, as quoted by Dr. McHugh in his article.

However,
there is plenty of evidence showing that “transgendering” is a
“psychological rather than a biological matter,” said Dr. McHugh.

“In
fact, gender dysphoria—the official psychiatric term for feeling
oneself to be of the opposite sex—belongs in the family of similarly
disordered assumptions about the body, such as anorexia nervosa and body
dysmorphic disorder,” said McHugh.

“Its
treatment should not be directed at the body as with surgery and
hormones any more than one treats obesity-fearing anorexic patients with
liposuction,” he said.

In fact, at Johns Hopkins, where they
pioneered sex-change-surgery, “we demonstrated that the practice brought
no important benefits,” said Dr. McHugh. “As a result, we stopped
offering that form of treatment in the 1970s.”

In recent years,
though, the notion that one’s sex is fluid has flooded the culture. It
is “reflected everywhere in the media, the theater, the classroom, and
in many medical clinics,” said McHugh.

“Transgendered
men do not become women, nor do transgendered women become men,” he
said. “All (including Bruce Jenner) become feminized men or
masculinized women, counterfeits or impersonators of the sex with which
they ‘identify.’ In that lies their problematic future.”

When “the tumult and shouting dies,” McHugh continued, “it proves not easy nor wise to live in a counterfeit sexual garb. The most thorough follow-up of sex-reassigned people—extending
over 30 years and conducted in Sweden, where the culture is strongly
supportive of the transgendered—documents their lifelong mental unrest.”

“Ten
to 15 years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who
had undergone sex-reassignment surgery rose to 20 times that of
comparable peers,” said McHugh.

Nonetheless,
the false “assumption that one’s sexual nature is misaligned with one’s
biological sex,” can be treated with therapy and medication, said
McHugh.

He further stressed that, “What is needed now is public
clamor for coherent science—biological and therapeutic science—examining
the real effects of these efforts to ‘support’ transgendering.”

“But
gird your loins if you would confront this matter,” warned Dr. McHugh.
“Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral
principle.”

Dr. McHugh’s article, Transgenderism: A Pathogenic Meme, can be read in full at the website of The Witherspoon Institute.

1 comment:

Henry
said...

"They rarely find therapists who are willing to help them “work out their conflicts and correct their assumptions,” said McHugh. “Rather, they and their families find only ‘gender counselors’ who encourage them in their sexual misassumptions.”

Hey, who remembers the wave of "repressed memories of molestation" these same types "uncovered" back in the '80s? Fads are so gear.

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